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Several killed as train and school bus collide in Belgium, local media report (r/news)

• Smintjes: The lights were red and the barriers were closed, still the bus was on the tracks. A lot of unknowns for the moment.
• Melazie_: That’s fucking horrible, how does that even happen?
• _thewildwest: This is absolutely horrific and devastating. The children on the bus were students attending a special needs school….oh my god. My heart goes out to the victims and their families

US strikes were ‘gross violation’ of ceasefire, Iran says (r/news)

• random_agency: So were the other 2 sneak attack by the US during negotiation.
• gitrjoda: I’m no expert, but I would think one of the foundations of a ceasefire is to cease firing.
• CPOx: Yes. I would assume that the act of firing violates a ceasefire.

Ireland to ban goods from Israeli settlements in West Bank by July (r/worldnews)

• gunzgoboom: I wonder what kind of goods are even manufactured in those West bank settlements. It doesn’t seem like there is meaningful infrastructure there. What are we talking about here, canned pickles and cookie trays?
• Kharenis: That’s reasonable. The settlements should absolutely be denounced and ostracised by the international community.
• rulingthewake243: What are the most popular things ireland is importing from the west bank?

What is virtually inevitable at this point, yet most people don’t see it coming? (r/AskReddit)

• FreshHotPoop: American consumers are being priced out of consuming
• HaraldFjorskin: Well this thread was depressing.
• NeuralAbomination: There is about to be a massive fuel shortage that isn’t just gonna peter out like the previous ones.

TIL that some archeologists have theorised that the Trojan Horse story is a metaphor for a massive earthquake which destroyed Troy’s walls and let the Greeks in. (r/todayilearned)

• Top_Divide6886: If humans become an interstellar species people will argue if the Garden of Eden was a metaphor for earth
• notthephonz: Hm, don’t both horses and earthquakes fall under Poseidon’s domain?
• Korwinga: But how did they get the earthquake to go inside of the horse?

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My manager is now super supportive after I quit. (Blind)

• skrulll (Chime): Unless they’re handing you promotion now to make you stay it probably doesn’t mean anything. He’s probably being nice so you don’t say much against him in exit interview
• L0NGVIEW (Roblox): Your manager no longer has any power over you so being nice is a smart move for them.
• Mister X (Cohesity): He doesn’t want your exit interview to reflect badly on him

SWE Salaries are about to collapse (Blind)

• XpBs23 (Meta): Best way to move forward is to take a low base but high equity in an early stage startup.
• 🤡-show (Google): 90k is poverty in Bay Area. You gotta be coping hard OP.
• idle. (Dropbox): It’s currently looking like a bimodal distribution.

Erin Brockovich launches map of over 4,200 data centres in the US, appeals for local communities to report environmental impact and other costs (r/technology)

• trudyik: It’s the classic corporate playbook: privatize the massive profits of AI while socializing the infrastructure and resource costs onto local taxpayers. Tech companies build these multi-billion dollar complexes, secure massive state-level tax incentives that drain local public coffers, and then demand millions of gallons of public drinking water to cool their chips. If AI is as immensely profitable as Silicon Valley claims it is, they should be paying a premium tax rate to the communities they are occupying, rather than relying on residents to blow the whistle on the local damage.
• t-g-l-h-: Look at all those red state datacenters
• PhazePyre: Shit, we about to get Erin Brockovich 2 in like 5-10 years?

US Law Enforcement Warns of ‘Anti-Tech Extremism’ as AI Hatred Grows (r/technology)

• Memitim: I see that the betrayers are already getting that loaded language ready to use as an excuse to betray more Americans.
• BarelyAirborne: Funny how we never hear about anti-working class extremism.
• kebabsoup: There you go, if you threaten their bottom line and refuse to be subjugated by the tech billionaires you will be branded an extremist and you will be hunted down.

Uber burned through its entire 2026 AI budget in four months. Now its COO is questioning whether it’s worth it (r/technology)

• TT5i0: Sounds like they will be doing layoffs soon so they can allocate more to the AI budget
• Haunterblademoi: They miscalculated their expenses, and then realized that AI is too expensive.
• marvinfuture: Just wait until AI isn’t subsidized and it’s astronomically more expensive when required by investors to turn a profit

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What happened

Anthropic’s official engineering blog published How we contain Claude across products, a May 25, 2026 post about the containment architectures behind claude.ai, Claude Code, and Claude Cowork.

The core argument is that agent safety is becoming a blast-radius engineering problem. As agents get more capable, the value of giving them real access rises, but so does the damage they could do if they misbehave, follow malicious instructions, or are steered by hostile content. Anthropic frames risk as two separate quantities: how likely a failure is, and how much harm a failure can cause. Better models, classifiers, prompts, and training can reduce the first quantity, but the second has to be capped by deterministic boundaries such as sandboxes, virtual machines, filesystem controls, and network egress policy.

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The hard question after the race to build one

This article starts from a useful shift in perspective. The field has spent decades asking whether quantum computers can be built at all. Now that companies and laboratories can assemble machines with hundreds or thousands of qubits, the sharper question is what those machines will actually be good for.

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This summary covers The Economist’s May 9th, 2026 China article listed in the contents as US-China AI negotiations and published under the headline A MAD problem.

The article argues that artificial intelligence is becoming a strategic problem of the sort usually associated with nuclear weapons: both America and China fear the danger, but neither wants to slow down if the other might race ahead. That tension is what makes AI diplomacy urgent and difficult. The technology promises economic power, military leverage and scientific advantage. It also raises the prospect of cyberattacks, biological misuse and systems that become hard for humans to control.

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The Pragmatic Engineer surfaced this May 26, 2026 deepdive through its latest archive and feed, and the original piece is State of the software engineering job market in 2026.

The useful thing about this report is that it refuses the two simplest stories about engineering hiring. The market is not back to the easy-growth world of 2021, but it is also not frozen. Hiring is recovering, unevenly, and the shape of that recovery says a lot about what companies now value: proven engineering ability, AI-adjacent skills, industry context, and proximity to the places where companies are still willing to concentrate teams.

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US military launches new strikes on targets in southern Iran, US Central Command says (r/news)

• titanfan694: Market manipulation complete
• viewbtwnvillages: negotiations are going well i see
• alphasignalphadelta: I’m assuming this could’ve been done on Sunday but the market was closed on Monday so they pushed it by a day

New Jersey Gov. Sherrill denied access to North Jersey immigration detention center as hunger strike enters fourth day (r/news)

• NietzscheIsMyDog: Imagine the insane pretext one would need to deny THE GOVERNOR from entering a building, much less the real reason they’re not allowed to enter.
• Mendican: There’s got to be some serious shit going on in that detention center.
• zorionek0: You’re the governor, use the national guard and force your way in.

Putin signs law authorizing use of military force to ‘protect Russian citizens’ abroad (r/worldnews)

• Suns_Funs: Statistically speaking he would have saved a lot more Russians, if he would have stopped “saving” Russians.
• Callabrantus: Check out the flabby arms in that flex.
• mca1169: just legalizing any justification for a future war or strike he launches.

Which company has lost you as a customer forever? (r/AskReddit)

• Active-Sherbert7938: Airbnb, because paying a huge cleaning fee and still having to do chores is a joke.
• Caprillione: Ticketmaster
• _SatinWhirl: any app that hides the cancel subscription button like it’s an easter egg

TIL that Mount Everest’s first measurement came out to a perfect 29,000 feet, so surveyors reported it as 29,002 feet to make sure that the public knew it was a real calculation and not just an estimate. (r/todayilearned)

• Chrono_Convoy: Maybe that wasn’t the only thing those surveyors exaggerated about?
• gitpusher: Not sure why they thought they could pull that off. considering anyone could just Google it and see real the height is 29,032 feet
• popsferragamo: Meter: and I took that personally…

The New York Knicks sweep the Cleveland Cavaliers are headed to the NBA finals for the first time since 1999 (r/sports)

• dak7: Knicks are winning the final game in each series so far by an AVERAGE of 39.33 points. This 37 point victory actually pulled their average down slightly.
• wendellbaker: Love this for the knicks players. Hate it for Dolan
• ttop34: If Brunson gets a ring before Luka, we’re gonna have to have an uncomfortable conversation

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Stop thanking tech companies on LinkedIn for laying off you (Blind)

• nzhQ44 (Zoom): People just does not want to burn the bridge
• nUAi64 (Amazon): LinkedIn is so cringe. Weirdoland
• 🔫Stewie: People are boot lickers and shameless

Token maxing will die (Blind)

• twloking1 (Twilio): Also stock market will crash at that point .
• XHBj66 (Tesla): It’s 🥜 compared to the overall operation cost.
• g2khisko (Cisco): Idea: Token efficiency calculator. Tells you who’s using tokens most efficiently. Who’s in!?

The terrifying rise of schoolboys making AI girlfriends — Boys as young as 12 are now in romantic ‘relationships’ with chatbots, and it’s affecting how they treat girls in the real world (r/technology)

• Feather_Sigil: A world created by narcissistic sociopaths finds ways to turn people into narcissistic sociopaths.
• JPMoney81: Well surely we should blame the kids for this and not do anything at all to regulate the AI companies or their billionaire owners!
• Inside-Yak-8815: I don’t care what the internet says, kids that young shouldn’t even be able to use AI chatbots for this whole scenario to even be a possibility…

The infamous 20 year old MySQL Bug #11472 has been fixed. (r/programming)

• keketi_: WTF? I was relying on this feature! Change it back please.
• qascevgd: Haha, the most recent comment is from the original reporter as well.
• thenickdude: I never thought I’d live to see the day!

Is it true that saying you don’t really like AI is a red flag for companies? (r/cscareerquestions)

• HelicopterNo9453: Yeah as it gives “boomer doesn’t like to use technology” vibes.
• BringBackManaPots: Saying you don’t really like AI is fine by me. But my COO would lose his mind. He thinks it’s the greatest thing in the world.
• RadioactiveDeuterium: This would be an immediate disqualification in the recruiter screen for my company.

Microsoft admin centers - I can’t be the only one bothered by this on a daily basis (r/sysadmin)

• McGarnacIe: What bothers me most these days, especially this past month is just how damn slow it is to load every single bloody page.
• Saueso: Fuck power apps
• Such_Field_3294: Every time they “unify” something it just adds another portal that’s slightly different from the rest. At this point I think the inconsistency is load-bearing and theyre afraid to touch it

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Quick facts

• Difficulty: MEDIUM
• Problem: Cheapest Flights Within K Stops
• Topics: Dynamic Programming, Depth-First Search, Breadth-First Search, Graph Theory, Heap (Priority Queue), Shortest Path

Problem gist

There are n cities, and each directed flight has a departure city, an arrival city, and a price. Given src, dst, and k, return the cheapest price from src to dst using at most k stops. If no such route exists, return -1.

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What happened

Meta Engineering’s official engineering blog published Migrating Data Ingestion Systems at Meta Scale, a May 12, 2026 post about replacing the data-ingestion architecture that moves social graph data from one of the world’s largest MySQL deployments into Meta’s data warehouse.

The post is interesting because it treats migration as a production-systems problem rather than a one-time cutover. Meta’s ingestion system incrementally scrapes several petabytes of social graph data from MySQL every day and feeds analytics, reporting, machine learning training data, and downstream product workflows. The legacy architecture had been customer-owned pipeline heavy: workable when the system was smaller, but increasingly unstable as scale grew and data landing deadlines tightened. The new architecture moves that responsibility into a simpler self-managed warehouse service, but the hard part was not only building the new path. It was moving 100% of the existing workload without corrupting data, increasing latency, overrunning capacity, or leaving consumers to discover defects.